Celebrating British Dragonfly Week: our author interview with Dave Smallshire
|
|
Dragonflies and damselflies form the order Odonata and are some of our most iconic insects, with a fascinating life cycle. In order to celebrate British Dragonfly Week (13th – 21st July 2019), we interviewed Dave Smallshire, the renowned dragonfly expert and co-author of the excellent Britain’s Dragonflies field guide.
To learn more about British Dragonfly Week and read our interview with Dave Smallshire see the NHBS blog.
|
|
Introduction to Plant Fossils
Palaeobotanists Christopher J. Cleal and Barry A. Thomas tell the evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years and offer non-specialists a practical guide to studying, dealing with and interpreting plant fossils. Incorporating the concepts of evolutionary floras, this second edition includes revised data on all main plant groups, the latest approaches to naming plant fossils, with extensive illustrations of fossil and living plants.
|
|
|
Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide
This fully updated third edition of the popular and award-winning field guide Birds of Prey of Australia contains two sections: a field guide with distribution maps, detailed illustrations and information on identification; and a handbook which includes an overview of the current knowledge about raptors, including their biology, ecology and behaviour. An illustrated section on difficult-to-distinguish species pairs is also included, along with new photographs.
|
|
|
Including:
Biggest seaweed bloom | Invasive parrots | Giant jellies
|
|
Just Published: Dave Goulson's The Garden Jungle
|
|
Dave Goulson gives us an insight into the fascinating lives of the wildlife that lives right under our noses, taking us burrowing into the compost heap, digging under the lawn and diving into the garden pond.
|
|
|
He also answered a few questions about the inspiration for his new book and his hopes and ambitions for the gardens of Britain, read more in our latest blog.
More stock in this week.
|
|
|
|
|